THE OREGON J:: SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY : MORNING, JUNE 28, . 1914. 4 -r-''.-.:'::jyfr?. t . ? J- R5T .tat. -li.... .,vv:;T 4V y i - (ft&M C .- ' f v 4. it 3 I- lrWtoi Ztmu " 'TpZ,, -- , u . ---n,-,., , M, A . f- " ' . . , t Copyright by C S. Woodruff. Journal Staff Photographer. This photograph of Portland's skyscraper district and its immediate environs was taken from the captive balloon Venice at a height of 1200 feet, and is the most comprehensive view of the business section of the city ever made. It includes the district west, of Third street and north of Main street. The Journal building is is seen in the middle foreground, surrounded by the skyscrapers that constitute the retail and hotel districts. In the background are seen the wholesale houses and rail and water terminals, with the new Broadway bridge on the right. . BY WAY OF A FEW SMILES Gardening Days and Nights "Now . comes the season when the wife goes to the country and the hus band In the words of the song, shouts Hooray! Hooray!'" - Thus Jerome JB. McWado. in an af ferdinner speech at Duluth, began his response to a toast on "The "Ladies." "When the ladles are with us, we are safe," he resumed; "but when they ir off to country or shore, leaving us In town alone, -then our troubles begin. "A man one summer day called on a doctor. k " 'Doc.' he said, 'I'm all run down.' " "You look it, too,' saijd the doctor, sympathetically. 'I'm not going to pre scribe drugs for a man In your condi tion. No. sir. what I'm going to pre scribe for you is gardening.' "The patient started and his un healthy pallor turned to a dull brick red. "'But. doc, he said, 'gardening Is the cause of all my trouble.' " 'Humrfi, what kind of gardening?" said the doctor incredulously. " 'Roof,' the man replied." stranger; where I' can; get a cigar In this town at this time of night?" "Why, sure!" exclaimed the citizen,' straightening up. "I know where you can get two cigars." Did His Part A little boy of five was invited to a children's party. The nejtt day he was giving an account of the fun, and said that each of the little visitors had contributed.- either a ' song, recitation, or music for the pleasure of the rest. T3h, poor "little Jack!" said bis mother. "How very unfortunate you could no nothing!" "Yes, I could, mother," replied the young hopeful. "I stood up and said my prayers 1" on the tablecloth, says Judge. One day Johnny was observed rubbing his finger for a long time over the cloth at his plate. "John, "what are you . doing?" said his mother at last. "Nothing. I was Just trying to rub two spots into one:" . Saving a Dane, Johnny's mother bad instituted a fine of 10 cents for every spot made Too Old for Exchange , "I hear you have a little new sister at your house," said the kindly neigh bor to a small boy. "Isn't that fine? Do you like her?" "Yes. I like her." answered Willie, "but I'd rather had a brother so I could play ball with him an' wrestle Bolivia has adopted with him an' teach him how.trwira.raptoy." V "Well, if you aren't satisfied, why don't you take her back and exchange her?" asked the neighbor. "Oh, it's too late now," answered Willie, with rather a downcast face. "We got her a week ago, and she's been laundered a couple of times already." POPULAR SCIENCE BRIEFS Peking has service. wireless teleg- n extensive telephone repeating his words when making an announcement. . The suburban system being electrified. of Paris is A five barreled megaphone, with tubes radiating, in as many direction, has been Invented by a Maine woman to save a person turning around and A church, at Nuremburg is heated by electricity. AS THE CARTOONISTS PICTURE EVENTS IN THE PASSING Slow Work It was on an east Texas train. The little coffee pot of an engine, having wheezed laboriously over serpentine rails, jolted to a restful stop at no place In particular. Time passed tedi ously. Some-of the passengers stalked nervously up and down the aisles, while others drew their felt hats down over their eyes and tried to forget it. When a half hour had elapsed, the conductor came through. "Say, friend," said a querulous voiced old man. "as near as you can tell, what's holdln us?" "We're taking on water, was the explanation. "Well, why don't you git another teaspoon? ; That un seems - to leak something dreadful 1" On His Last Legs David Belasco, apropos of the ter rific inroads that moving pictures have made on the regular theatre, said in New York: "The cream of the theatre has not suffered. No, the best has not suf fered. But down at the bottom down amongst the skim milk, so to speak there the suffering has been terrible. I heard of a sad case the other day. There was a chap who had a dozen performing parrots. For a long time, thanks to . the movies, this chap had been, out of a Job. But at last his agent wired him that he'd signed him up at a good price, r, "Several days passed. Then; the agent received on a soiled, postal card from the poor fellow this tragic declin ation: "Can't accept. . Have eaten my act." Not for Her. The suffrage parade was rounding the plaza. A Jeering youth with his velvet bat far back on his head and a pair of large yellow shoes, made fa cetious remarks as the marcher trailed by. . ' "Back to the cook stove,? he cried. An elderly man looked around at him.- " "Is your mother in the parade?" he asked. , 'My mother!" gasped the youth. "Well I should say not! My mother ain't got no time fer such foolln.' She goes out washln'." Raised the Limit. He was stronger in the town and arrived on' a late train. The cigar stand in the little hotel was locked for the night, so he went out on the street, where he found an idler leaning against a post. "Can - you tell me," ' asked the I TTMV "" '" Ozone Is to be used to sterilize the drinking water at St. Petersburg. Eighty-five million incandescent lamps were made during the past year. The electrlo flatJron has been suc cessfully used for drying photographic prints. A motor driven dredge Is reclaiming two miles of new shore line for last St. Louis, IlL The Brooklyn navy yard is in wire less communication with the Panama canal station. A storage battery train Is in use In Cuba running about 100 miles out from . Havana. More than 2.000.000 electrical horse power is used throughout Colorado every day. Time signals sent out from the Eif fel tower are received throughout France and Switzerland. Some of the finest automobiles are provided with a small electrlo light to Illuminate the steps. Baltimore's system of ornamental street lighting covers E0 blocks, or nearly three miles of streets. An English Invention Is a safe fast ened with a wire stretched to respond to its musical tone produced by some musical instrument, its vibrations af fecting electrical mechanism that op erates locks. Los Angeles Times. TIRED OF IT Philadelphia North American GETTING READY FOR BUSINESS Westminster Gazette. THE PRICKLY CACTUS A Rhode Island man has patented a suit for aviators, covered with pock4 ets open only at the bottom, which he! believes would fill with air and acri as numerous parachutes should ther wearer falL T A French scientist who has beVn experimenting for IS years to sscertetn the effects of low temperatures on fish and animals has found that com mon snails can withstand the greatest amount of cold. Blue print paper may be used to de termine electrical polarity, a white spot developing around the negative pole when the paper Is In contact with the wire, while the positive wire will not affect it. A French scientist has combined wireless receiving apparatus, an ane roid barometer and recording pens to form apparatus with which the ap proach of thunder storms is foretold with remarkable accuracy. For use In small gatherings there been. Invented an attachment for phonographs that illustrate songs as they are sung by projecting lantern slide views on a screen hung in front of the phonograph. - Chicago Tribune A DIPLOMA FROM THE SUPREME COUP1 " Chicago Evening Post. THE GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT - Sacramento Bee. BAD BUSINESS FOR CROAKERS Force of Habit. "What is the price of a ticket to Montbrsskar TJmpbsty-seven dollars and um'ph teen cents." said the agent, display ing several yards of yellow paste . beard. ' "X an just shopping." said the lady absently. "Can you cut me off a sampler